Past Events




Africana Studies Presents

"Landing in the Familiar": Occupation and Belonging in Urban Brazil
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Sep 30, 2020 at -

Join us for Africana Studies Presents featuring Keisha-Khan Y. Perry. The title of the talk is "Landing in the Familiar": Occupation and Belonging in Urban Brazil.



Center for Africana Studies Faculty Research Colloquium

ft. Guthrie Ramsey and Shana Redmond
Sep 29, 2020 at -

Join Penn’s Guthrie Ramsey, Jr., Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, in conversation with Shana Redmond, Professor of Musicology and African American Studies at the University of California, Los…



Africana Studies Presents

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Sep 23, 2020 at -

Join us for Africana Studies Presents featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The title of the talk is Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership



Blackness in the Middle East

Sep 16, 2020 at -

Join the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania for an important conversation on blackness in the Middle East. Panelists will address themes including the greater history of blackness in the region,…



"Abolition Constitutionalism"

Dorothy Roberts
Mar 3, 2020 at



Africa Scholar for a Day:

Amal Hassan Fadlalla
Feb 28, 2020 at

Professor Fadlalla's Biography: 

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research…



A Reading by Major Jackson

Feb 27, 2020 at

Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (2020). His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of…



Black Women Writing Across Genres in the Late 20th Century

Feb 20, 2020 at

The 2020 Kislak Symposium looks at the flourishing of Black women writers as a cultural force in late twentieth century America. Combining panels, roundtables, talks, and readings,…



PRSS Lecture

Terence Keel (UCLA)
Feb 19, 2020 at



New Directions in Afro-Latinx Studies Series

Odette Casamayor-Cisneros
Feb 13, 2020 at

The Power of the Unsaid: Counter-Hegemonic Knowledge in Contemporary Afro-Cuban Arts

Co-sponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies.

Refreshments will be served.